Lashings of soft roe about? (4)
I believe the answer is:
rope
'lashings' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how one could define the other.
'soft roe about?' is the wordplay.
'soft' becomes 'p' (musical abbreviation for 'piano').
'about?' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'p' put within 'roe' is 'ROPE'.
'of' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for rope that I've seen before include "murder weapon" , "Enough to hang one?" , "Guy" , "Pore over a woven cord" , "Stout cord" .)